Adil Najam
Before the elections Dawn News had done a series on who should become the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. I am not sure what the result there was. But I do know that the question is real again. Much more real.
Speculation is rife. Theories about. The more we talk about it, the more confused we get. The game is interesting, but is it just a game?
There are too many questions, and too few answers.
- Will we get a grand ‘coalition of [nearly] the whole, which will have 3/4th majority and could replace the President and rehabilitate the Constitution?
- Will PPP and PML-N part ways – either because PML-N will choose to be the ‘friendly’ opposition or because they both realize they cannot work together?
- What about the PML-Q? They are also talking to the PPP. Is a PPP-PML-Q coalition on teh cards?
- They say Amin Fahim is over, is he?
- Will we get a PM from the Punjab – Gillani, Qureshi or Mukhtar – to highlight that PPP is not just a ‘Sindhi’ party? If so, will this is permanent or temporary while the party waits for Asif Zardari to be elected from somewhere?
- With Maulana Fazlur Rahman doing his ‘meetings’, is he still in the game?
- What about the ANP? Could we see a consensus candidate emerging from there in the ruling coalition?
- And what about the provinces. It seemed that things were clear – PML-N in the Punjab, PPP in Sindh, ANP in NWFP and PML-Q in Balochistan. Will that actually be?
And you could answer any of them in the affirmative depending on what you already think and which news reports you have been reading. Any ideas what might actually happen?
In a recent post on ATP ‘temporal‘ had asked who should become the next president of Pakistan. We ask a similar question today but the intent this time is not normative, but practical. The question, this time, is not who should become the next President, but who you think will become the next Prime Minister, given the way the cards have been dealt with the last elections.
so, Koun Baney Ga Wazeer-i-Aazm? Any thoughts?
i think the new prime minister will be Makhdoom Amin Fahim.
i think he deserve
but everyone will be acceptable
from peoples party
I think they should make Altaf Hussain the prime minister and very urgently. hehehe
Zardari will be pulling all the strings no matter who is the PM!
no body can say who will be the PM coz screen is not clear yet. let the time come but hidden politics is going on which is very dangerious and no body know what will happen , who is sincere and who is not. what new gov will do or main thing is that new gov will ever come or not . . . . forces are going to take place in cites rather dn da bordrs , what can we expect. i am doubtfullllllllllllllllll that we are going back …………… going to have BARYSAGHEER again under USA this time.
Seeing the election HOCUS POCUS n PEHLAY AP PEHLAY AP mantra fizzling out pretty quickly between PPP and PMLN (Shabaj Phajja has already started showing his vengeful side, blocking postings left right and center, to become the Punjab CM) and the showings of the internal rifts within PPP ranks on whether to have the PM from Sind or Punjab and with Amin Fahim and Ahmed Mukhtar head-on vying for the PM job……….all I could hum………is……………as Adil Najam’s favourite tune…………hum dekhay gay! Lazim Hai K hum b dekhay gay! Hum dekhay gay!
(for the less educated lot here………….dekhda janda reh jamoray dekhda janda reh!)